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The History Of Wool And Woolcombing
by James Burnley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle And Rivington Limited, 1889. Hardback. Good. First edition hardback, 1889, with no jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch rubbed to edges with cloth to spine head and tail slightly crushed. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature neat to half-title page; toning to page-ends but text, diagrams and illustrations bright and clear throughout (frontispiece missing). Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240253
- Title
- The History Of Wool And Woolcombing
- Author
- James Burnley
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle And Rivington Limited
- Date Published
- 1889
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / UK; Crafts and Trades; Antiquarian;
Terms of Sale
Hall of Books
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
Biblio member since 2020
Oswestry, Shropshire
About Hall of Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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